Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-11-17
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

STRONG flow of natural gas has been
struck at Cerre Gordo, Piatt county, ILL.,,
at depth of ITO feet.
FoRTY-NINE head of cattle, suffering
from pleuro- pneumonia, we're killed on a
! farm near New Brunswick, NJ j.
TYPHOID FEVER is still quite prevalent
in Indiana and the malady appears to be
spreading.
! HENRY EDGERToN, one of the best
Known lawyers on the Pacific coast, was
found dead in his Office at San Francisco
Friday. 1t is supposed he died of apo
plexy.
| LINGO enc of the condemned Chicago
anarchists, committed suicide in his cell
on Thursday morning by means Of full
minating cap.
| A PANIC is reported in the New York
cotton market. The price advancing
rapidly. "Bear" failures are anticipated.
The protracted drouth in Southern
| Illinois and Indiana, attended by dried
up streams and wells, exhausted cisterns
and forest fires, has at last been broken
by copious rains.
THE strike. in the mines in the Spring
field (Ill.) district is at "a end. All the
men nave decided to work at TIE rates Of
| fered by the operators, 6219 cents per
tom
A GENERAL strike of the malsters not
connected with breweris was inaugurated
at Milwaukee Tuesday. The men want
$50 a month, an increase of 50 over the
present pay. There will be a fight of
some length.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has reduced its rate 90 per cent. for
sending tenword messages. Ten word
messages between New York and Chicago,
heretofore charged 80 cents, will here
after be charged 40 cents.
THE stockholders of the Third Nation
al Bank of st. Paul, voted Friday to go
into liquidation, and after Monday
next the business of the bank
will be transacted at the Merchants Ma
tional Bank
DIsTRoT ASSEMBLY No. 3,115, X. of H.,
the Oldest assembly in New Albany, Ind,
has gone ont of existence. IL had at one
time membership of 800, but this num-
Der was reduced to 20. There was no
dissenting voice to the proposed disco
luton.
The flour production at Minneapolis
last week reached 155, 300 barrels, against
1871, 100 the previous week. Sales have
dropped OFF, but millers anticipate high
err prices. The wheat receipts for the
week aggregated 1904, $50 bushels, the
largest on record.
THE fire losses in the United States
and Canada in October aggregated 50,
766S25, being $4,23o,175 less than for the
corresponding month a year ago. The
total fire losses in the ten mouths of the
present. year amount to $102, 953, 1926, be-
ing over $37 100000 more than during
the corresponding period last year.
AT crossing in Allegheny City, Pa,
Thursday night, a freight train dashed
against the rear end of a street car,
which was filed with passengers. The
car was partly wrecked and John M.
Culp and n young woman named Harriet
Weyman, who had rushed to the rear plat
form, were Knocked off and ground to
pieces under the wheels of the engine.
Other passengers were not injured.
In the cases of the convicted Doodle
County Commissioners and ex-Commis-
sioners Of Cook county, Ill. Judge jamie
son has over ruled the motion for an ar
rest of judgment, and sentenced the six
meN for two years in the State peniten
tiary each. The prisoners will now APP
peal their case to the appellate court, re-
naming in Jail until that tribunal shnll
pronounce it's decision.